Comments on: bunt cake: a webcomic thing

bunt cake: a webcomic thing

Terminal Verbosity — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:35:43 -0800

"I like to think that baseball players are a pretty imaginitive bunch. I mean, these are guys who, when asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, said something nuts like 'baseball player' — and then didn't change their answer." Bunt Cake: a webcomic for those of us who like baseball cards recontextualized and our humor depantsed and set on fire. Or something like that. [via mefi projects]

By: felix betachat

felix betachat — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:42:22 -0800

Your favorite moderator's project sucks. I snark because I love.

By: barnacles

barnacles — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:43:11 -0800

I was a little lukewarm on the first few, but this one cracked me up: Teeth Casserole Also, as I didn't follow your MeFi projects link, that one made me realize this is by someone from the blue. Nice, cortex.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:45:29 -0800

"Man, why is the site suddenly all slow and OH SHIT" Thanks, TV! And it's a pun, felix. It's also kind of a shame that even the mis-spelled domain is camped by domain speculators.

By: horsemuth

horsemuth — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:47:52 -0800

reminds me of this site vaguely.

By: felix betachat

felix betachat — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:50:48 -0800

It's also kind of a shame that even the mispelled domain is camped by domain speculators. No doubt trying to capture that lucrative/elusive semi-literate housewife demographic. Did you try meetloaf.com?

By: vito90

vito90 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:52:43 -0800

This should be turned into a Bunt Cake Construction set somehow, just like Red Meat. Funny stuff.

By: sleepy pete

sleepy pete — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:54:26 -0800

Needs more Bake McBride.

By: Atom Eyes

Atom Eyes — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:55:58 -0800

I'll just cut-and-paste my comment from MetaChat (I hope that's not too gauche!): Ha! Your project brought back memories of the summer I decided to become a serious baseball card collector (a career that lasted all of four months). My proudest acquisition was the Ken Griffey, Jr. Upper Deck rookie card -- an item that shot up in value after his first couple seasons, when everyone thought he would be the savior of baseball. I still remember how excited I got when I checked the Beckett guide and saw that sucker priced at sixty bucks (and climbing)! We'd all heard about the Honus Wagner card that had recently sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars -- surely a mass-produced Ken Griffey, Jr. would someday (perhaps after shattering Hank Aaron's home run record by the age of thirty?) be worth twice that amount! Needless to say, many injury-plagued, mediocre seasons later, the card's value has plummetted, dashing my boyhood dreams of a life of luxury and ease. Meanwhile, a balloon-headed roid freak is set to break the home run record wide open. (And back in the day I probably traded my best Barry Bonds card for a 3-D Cecil Fielder, or some shit.) So, cortex, thanks for the memories!

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:59:18 -0800

Ra for those that like it, but golly! I didn't even crack a smile.

By: vito90

vito90 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:59:58 -0800

Needs more Bake McBride. Yes it does. Also needs more Sixto Lezcano, Dick Pole, and Rusty Kuntz. "Two-thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Bake McBride."

By: ORthey

ORthey — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:01:27 -0800

Since I love baseball, and comics like Get Your War On, it's hard for me to dislike this!

By: LionIndex

LionIndex — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:06:03 -0800

Also needs more Sixto Lezcano I remember cheering for that guy when I was a kid. It's Lezcaino though, right? Anyway, the scoreboard used to flash: "Six-to!" "Let's Go!" over and over when he came up to bat.

By: LionIndex

LionIndex — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:06:56 -0800

Crap. No i in the last name.

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:07:28 -0800

The baseball card medium is a very good idea. The comics themselves are either too esoteric for me or just generally don't make much sense. Number two (the one I like best) seems like an homage to "Zippy", which is neat-- I also think Zippy is either over my head or nonsensical with the occasional strip that will be much better than anything else on the comics page. I like seeing cards that I remember from my childhood. That's really the best part of the whole thing. Saying "oh, I had three of that bastard and never got the Steve Balboni card I wanted in all those packs I bought." Cortex can have my Roger Clemens rookie card to use as long as he promises to wipe his butt with it when he's finished and send it to Steinbrenner.

By: efalk

efalk — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:07:39 -0800

pretty much the entire card market died, sadly. Now I have to work for my retirement

By: djgh

djgh — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:12:04 -0800

Heh, that was a lot funnier than I expected it to be. cortex is starting to remind me of why the lucky stiff, especially the Poignant Guide to Ruby.

By: ioesf

ioesf — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:12:37 -0800

the cards definitely stir some memories, and of course cutting them up is wonderfully heretical. the humor?

By: felix betachat

felix betachat — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:12:58 -0800

Cortex can have my Roger Clemens rookie card to use as long as he promises to wipe his butt with it when he's finished and send it to Steinbrenner. Don't waste the postage. Eventually Steinbrenner will come crawling back to it, no matter how full of shit it is.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:18:06 -0800

Number two (the one I like best) seems like an homage to "Zippy" It's kind of odd—I love Zippy to death but it didn't really occur to me consciously when I started to put this thing together. But that's pretty spot-on—the way that Bill Griffith just sort of shoe-horns whatever thoughts he's having on language usage and pop culture into the shoebox diorama that is the Zippy context consistently pleases and impresses me. The strip gets talked about a lot over ot Language Log lately, which is awesome and apt: while Zippy is not really a satisfying daily-gag read, it's just plain wonderful in its oddness. Cortex can have my Roger Clemens rookie card to use as long as he promises to wipe his butt with it when he's finished and send it to Steinbrenner. Include an SASE and you've got a deal. reminds me of this site vaguely. Huh! Kindred spirits, all over the damn place. Ra for those that like it, but golly! I didn't even crack a smile. Yeah, I think I'm gonna get a lot of that. Heh.

By: inigo2

inigo2 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:12:22 -0800

Not to put too fine a point on it

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:26:30 -0800

Heeeey I was just looking at these but didn't catch the FPP. Well, cortex, I like. Howeva. I think you should let the comix speak for themselves more. I enjoy reading the thoughts about them featured below, but I think you'd get more thoughtful interactions with the illustrations from your readers if you didn't softly and caringly masticate the available musing/analysis. Less is more. (Spoken like a true modstalker.) I think I like the underdressed Lasorda the best, sort of building off his public weight concerns to my imagination. Did other middle aged fat men actually buy slim fast because of him? O folly of the 1980s.

By: DU

DU — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:27:18 -0800

I have to agree with the Mayor. Great idea, but I don't get the results. Like, why is it imaginative to never think of another idea for what you want to be when you grow up?

By: batmonkey

batmonkey — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:33:40 -0800

It's one of those projects where everyone likes a different part, it seems. I did find some of the panels amusing (the guys in the painted classroom, especially), but I was most tickled by the commentary below. The Dumbo thing (7/13) had me slain with giggles, in particular. They would have lasted longer, but then I clicked the Buttersafe link and got all distracted by the randomness there. Anyway! Neat stuff, cortex. Good on ya for being brave enough to put this kind of surreality out there.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:36:53 -0800

I like it. It's a weird, dry, surreal sort of humor, and it tells me that if I don't get the joke, it's my fault. cortex is strange and awesome.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:43:46 -0800

Howeva. I think you should let the comix speak for themselves more. I had the same thought, actually.

By: Shfishp

Shfishp — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:04:35 -0800

I dunno....I wanted this to be really funny. It had/has so much potential, but I didn't even smile, and I'm all about quirky humour. Just not for me I guess. Unfortunately, I say, "Meh."

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:05:40 -0800

Thin macros that are only funny if you're much higher than I am or have been in recent memory. Sorry 'tex. Too much LOLCATZ, not enough actual jokes.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:07:50 -0800

Dev note: figure out how to pipe bong smoke over http.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:20:00 -0800

Dude, we could make the biggest bong ever from here to Portland! Gotta be a gravity one, or have some of those crazy aquarium pumps though, because I just don't have the lung strength... (Man, I need a regular dealer here... I don't want to have to deal with my girlfriend's ex-roommate with the ass stitches anymore...)

By: drezdn

drezdn — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:25:55 -0800

It definitely had it's moments. You need a few recurring characters though like Jim Thome in The Dugout.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:14:44 -0800

It's reminds me a bit of A Softer World, only with a tad less edge. Except for the teeth casserole line which makes me laugh everytime I think of it. Adding it to my myriad of online comics to see where it goes.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:17:42 -0800

boys: What we do is, we shotgun it. LA->SC->Portland.

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:07:08 -0800

Hm. Not funny.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:22:08 -0800

I know it's not funny— I'm totally serious about the bong, dude!

By: batmonkey

batmonkey — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:10:59 -0800

ass stitches? There's a story in that, I'll bet. Probably not a story to read while eating dinner, but a story, nonetheless.

By: subaruwrx

subaruwrx — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:25:07 -0800

that was so bad, I think it gave me cancer

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:56:10 -0800

OK, so my girlfriend's roommate got this ass cyst drained and stitched, around the end of April. And sure, it's a surgery, and I've had some ass pain of my own (though nothing comparable). It's just that he proceeds to monopolize the livingroom couch and TV for the next two and a half months straight, all the while having pain that stops him from, say, doing the dishes (even as cockroaches invade) but doesn't stop him from cooking up a plate fulla bacon and then leaving it on the stove, half-eaten. He's a decent enough guy, but kinda a moronic stoner who's managed to not leave the house at all except to buy terrible food, rent terrible movies and buy pretty decent pot (and rip us off on the price in a particularly transparent manner). We had to move out before I clubbed him to death.